I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.

People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.

You mainly feel the way you think.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.

If you would stop, really stop, damning yourself, others, and unkind conditions, you would find it almost impossible to upset yourself emotionally - about anything. Yes, anything.

By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.

Stop shoulding on yourself

Neurosis is just a high-class word for whining.

The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.

The trouble with most therapy is that it helps you feel better. But you don't get better. You have to back it up with action, action, action.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all

A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

And you’re disappointed in the story. I know you wanted a love story.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

Delusive hope still points to distant good.

Why look any further if you've discovered complete satisfaction.

Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. [Ger., Allein der Vortrag macht des Redners Gluck, Ich fuhl es wohl noch bin ich weit zuruck.]

If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.